foamdino

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by foamdino 1y ago
I can relate to this thought process and had my own conflicted thoughts about AI and the role it (and I) play in the SWE future: https://medium.com/@kev.jackson/two-months-of-an-ai-partners... - I'm still conflict
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by foamdino 3y ago
We're working with the Morello processor and have had to wrestle a bit with allocation from a block based allocator: https://medium.com/thg-tech-blog/morello-and-memory-pools-91...
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by foamdino 13y ago
As someone that spends a lot of time reading about games, gaming culture and gaming hardware, I can assert that the Xbox One is not the most impressive console of the next (soon to be launched) gen. In terms of GPU hardware it is a reduced
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by foamdino 14y ago
As someone who bought AMD/ATi to 'support' the idea of a more open linux, I regret the decision daily. Very little works on linux and performance on windows (I dual boot for gaming), is not very good. I'll never buy ATi again after my expe
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by foamdino 14y ago
There is significant code in the Java libraries that was first written by people outside of Sun/Oracle. Back in the Java5 days some APIs provided by Java were simply javax.something wrapped around org.apache code.
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by foamdino 14y ago
I'm not seeing where Android has caused fragmentation - which you keep mentioning. Java is by definition fragmented. Java on phones has been fragmented for ages (pre-Android). Look at all the competing OS/APIs available for jme phones (BR
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by foamdino 14y ago
Just because I believe something is so (Andriod == Java) doesn't make it so. Google do not claim (as far as I've seen anywhere) that Android is Java. They must name the APIs java.x to ensure source compatibility, but they chuck the class f
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by foamdino 14y ago
Please do some research on the background of the whole sordid affair - Google did not steal 'Java' - they took ASL licensed libraries and used them as an API and they built their own VM. Guess who did the same thing? Sun and Oracle. Did Su
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by foamdino 14y ago
For more information on the vote of Java 7: http://blog.joda.org/2011/06/java-se-7-passes-in-zombie-jcp_... And an excellent summary of how the FOU came to be (with pictures): http://blog.joda.org/2009/03/sun-apache-ip-in-pictures_9067..
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by foamdino 14y ago
As far as I know the FOU was in place way before 2005 when Apache started on Harmony. Oracle did a 180 on supporting Apache then stabbing them in the back. When Sun owned Java, Oracle are documented as supporting Apache's requests to get t
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by foamdino 14y ago
The key points are here: "So where does this whole thing about the field-of-use restrictions (that prevent an independent implementation from being used on mobile devices) come into play. Why, it's in that separate TCK license referred to i
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by foamdino 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote/freelance Developer with 10+ years java experience, lots of ruby and more recently some python (GAE + django). I also have some experience with Erlang - but I haven't built anything with it for a while. Worked on gove
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by foamdino 15y ago
Indeed, get someone like MIT to do an OpenJournal to complement the rest of their OpenX initiatives and you might start getting buy-in. The problem is that the system is broken - publish n papers => you're better than before (ignoring t
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by foamdino 15y ago
This is what I do, Win7 for games, debian for work. I like the dualboot nature as when in debian I have no excuse to startup a game and get distracted, when in windows I know I'm off work and I can relax. Also having access to good command
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by foamdino 15y ago
My understanding of the comment is that the commenter makes the point that VS is almost too comfortable (sorry if I'm mis-reading this), and that comfort is actually a hindrance to learning things. I see it where I teach, the students that
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by foamdino 15y ago
"there is not a whole lot you can do to tune your queries" What does this even mean? For any query which relies on data from different tables, yes there are opportunities to tune the query, and there are opportunities to build different ki
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by foamdino 15y ago
Thanks - this is something I've not come across before. Looking on wikipedia it seems to be pre-dominantly US based.
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by foamdino 15y ago
Sorry that this is off-topic, but what the hell is a 'giftie'? What defines a 'gifted child' in this context? I'm interested to know.
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by foamdino 15y ago
Are the positions only available for US citizens/residents? I'm basically what you're after (senior java dev with 10+ years experience), but I'm British.
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by foamdino 15y ago
I suspect (and I've heard tell, but I have no data to support this), that the UK universities cannot afford the same salaries as their US counterparts. If your a prof and you have two offers (let's stay technical as it's HN): 1 Cambridge -
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by foamdino 15y ago
First define useful? I have an undergrad technical degree and yes it was useful to me. I do however have an appreciation of the arts and, if time and funds permitted, would gladly study multiple undergrad and masters courses in philosophy
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by foamdino 16y ago
$10K/month would give me freedom to spend 4+ hours with my son/day and not give a crap about how to get php+jquery+mysql to behave sensibly today. What do I care about FU money? If x$ gives you freedom, by definition it is FU money.
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by foamdino 16y ago
I'm looking into Guice + Roboguice (which seems to be the way to go), but I really need to understand Guice semantics first - Guice != Spring and I have a fair bit of 'unlearning' to do
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by foamdino 16y ago
I agree that the Java culture is significantly poisoned by the 'enterprise architect' culture, but Spring if anything has been the saviour of Java. Compare IoC (Spring setter injection), with J2EE+EJB2.x - it's night and day - and I know wh
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by foamdino 16y ago
It's almost as if the vendors of such awesome technology as the .Net stack and the wonderful world of Java app servers was trying to get you to buy some brain-dead tools to manage what should be as simple http get/post The only useful thi
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by foamdino 16y ago
My reading of the whole incident is that the exploit was disclosed (responsibly) to the banks 1 year ago and the banks have done nothing to fix the problem. Since then the professor (along with others) published a paper detailing the explo
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by foamdino 16y ago
Having just researched Personal Learning Environments (PLE's) [1] - this is a timely reminder of just how bad standard teaching portal type application are for the goal of teaching and learning. Hopefully this will spawn a few imitators wh